tongue weight?

What's the max tongue weight for the deuce? I got a trailer that will be placing a good bit of weight on the tongue, and i was wondering how much the deuce can handle. I know my jeep won't be a problem, but with larger vehicles i want to be safe.
It connects to the factory pintle

pic is too big for your system to handle, but here is direct link

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/dirtymike72/beater 2doorxj/DSCN3189.jpg

I think the duece would handle it, but I do not think that the trailer would By the photo the trailer looks to be a light trailer with the wheels too far back

Standard and accepted practice for tag-along trailers is to have 10% of the total trailer weight on the hitch. More is better. I agree with Wiggall, your duece will handle way more than that trailer can carry. Check your weights and measures data plate, that will give the approprate trailer capacity, use 10% and you will have the proper hitch weight.

Considering the cargo capacity is 10,000 over-the-road, I'd say you're good for anything the vehicle will pull; the pintle is rated at around 49,000 lbs gross weight, IIRC, so I'd figure that it's capacity is around 10-12K vertical load, but I could be wrong.

Flea said:

Considering the cargo capacity is 10,000 over-the-road, I'd say you're good for anything the vehicle will pull; the pintle is rated at around 49,000 lbs gross weight, IIRC, so I'd figure that it's capacity is around 10-12K vertical load, but I could be wrong.

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for the pintle, but for the truck wouldn't it be around 1000# of tongue weight if the maximum towed load is 10,000#?

Adjust your trailer tongue weight by rolling your load forward or aft. Essentially, it looks like your SUV is too far forward of the axles, therefore making your tongue too heavy.

i'm not asking how to tow, or if my trailer is strong enough. I asked what the DEUCE HITCH could take. Ignore my trailer.
From what others have said, it appears as if the pintle can take 10,000. which sucks because i have a set of truck nuts that weigh 11K that i wanted to hand from the pintle hook

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DeuceNewb said:

What's the max tongue weight for the deuce? I got a trailer that will be placing a good bit of weight on the tongue, and i was wondering how much the deuce can handle. I know my jeep won't be a problem, but with larger vehicles i want to be safe.
It connects to the factory pintle

pic is too big for your system to handle, but here is direct link

http://i624.photobucket.com/albums/tt321/dirtymike72/beater 2doorxj/DSCN3189.jpg

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I just bought this hitch for towing my M101A1 behind my pick up. it's a 15 ton, with 4,000 pounds tongue weight. Comparing that to the hitch on my Deuce, The Deuce hitch has to be at least half again as heavy.
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dont think you would have any problem getting ride of the trailer all together and just hang the jeep from the hitch with some bungie cords . do you guys ask silly questions just to ask i haul my 12000lb backhoe with my duece backed onto the trailer with probably 7000-8000lb tongue weight and still dont even know it's back there i dont think you'll start having issues till you get over 10.000lds tongue weight i dont think the rear cross member will take much more than that but the hitch will hold more

You can load that trailer til it's wheel pop off and it will not be too much weight for that deuce.